26.
And Laos wide and fierce came roaring by.
[Stanza lv.] line 2.
The river Laos was full at the time the author passed it; and, immediately above Tepaleen, was to the eye as wide as the Thames at Westminster; at least in the opinion of the author and his fellow-traveller. In the summer it must be much narrower. It certainly is the finest river in the Levant; neither Achelous, Alpheus, Acheron, Scamander, nor Cayster, approached it in breadth or beauty.
27.
And fellow-countrymen have stood aloof.
[Stanza lxvi.] line 8.
Alluding to the wreckers of Cornwall.
28.
The red wine circling fast.